On Monday of Holy Week Jesus entered the temple and cleansed it (Mark 11:15-18). It was understood that one of the things the Messiah would do when He arrived was cleanse the temple and restore proper worship. You and I are now His temple. We must be cleansed before there can be true worship. He must rid us of all those precious things that interfere with whole hearted allegiance. The Messiah has come to cleanse us so that we can worship God in Spirit and truth.
“And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” Mark 11:15-17 (ESV)
